Reflection 1

Music can have both negative and positive impact on the lives of teenagers. Th first piece of
source that was read by the researcher was an article by Mariam Saeed. According to Mariam
Saeed, everyone has his or her specific opinion about the music they choose. Music can leave an
impact on someone’s life such as a Relaxing, Angering. Energizing, soothing and many more.
Also, music helps to make friends because persons would hang out with other persons because
they have the same interest in the same music. On the other hand, Rap music usually have a
negative impact on teenagers casing them to be involve in Sex and Drugs.

Th second source was a video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecCsAeRjSMg, Michael Rich

talks about how music affect the thought and the behavior. According to him, music is a very
powerful motivator which means that it basically motivate teenagers to do certain things such as
developing certain attitude or causing them to behave in a different manner .He also said that we
shouldn’t underestimate the power of music because it touches the emotional system of our
brain, even though it’s slower it overwhelm the other parts of the brain. This means that the
emotion is so powerful that it overpowers the other parts of the brain. At the end he said that we
should be aware of the music that we listen to because it may influence us or even change us.

The last piece was a song by Joyner Lucas entitled I’m Not Racist. In this song Joyner Lucas
brought out the fact that we don’t have to be racist to our friends or our ekders.